THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Our readers might be interested in this letter we are putting in the mailbox today. It is self-explanatory.
Mr. Stan Emerson,
121-123 West 8
Topeka Kansas
Topeka Daily Capital,
121-123 West 8th Street
Dear Mr. Emerson:
Your apologies, please, Mr. Emerson.
In "The Sporting Thing" of Tuesday, April 4, you indicated that you have little esteem for students in the William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information at the University of Kansas.
you cite the following reason: that the University Daily Kansan said, "We understand that everyone at Manhattan and Kansas State are staunch supporters of Jack Gardner. In fact, even the pigs are rooting for him."
You will remember your comment was, "The column…wonders how many K.U. English profs caught the error: it's everyone IS—bub. Such a simple grammatical mistake, tho, speaks well of K.U. journalism majors."
Mr. Emerson, you have told your readers a lie. Please find enclosed an issue of the University Daily Kansan of Tuesday, March 28. On page 7 you will find the article to which you refer. It reads:
"A faculty member informs us that the K-State students and the Manhattan people are all solidly behind Jack Gardner, the Wildcat coach. He adds that even the pigs' are rooting for him."
Not quite the same thing, is it? You quoted the Kansan as saying, "...everyone...are staunch supporters..." We did say, "...K-State students and the Manhattan people are all solidly behind Jack Gardner..." There is nothing grammatically wrong with that.
In our School of Journalism we are constantly drilled with one of the cardinal rules of news writing, Mr. Emerson. That rule is accuracy. Perhaps instead of making underhand remarks about us, you should be here studying with us.
Sure, we can take a ribbong. However, we don't like people taking cracks at us when they base their cracks on lies.
you owe it to students, graduates, and faculty of our School of Journalism to tell your readers that you told them a lie and that your sly remark was based on that lie.
your apologies, please, Mr. Emerson.
(signed)
Sincerely,
Richard Dilsaver,
Sports Editor,
University Daily Kansan
Universi-
P.S. be emotional redress,
I would be willing—anytime,
anywhere—to take a grammar exam-
ination with you.
Man Loses 'Lead Foot'
Preston, Ga.—(U.P.)—Charlie Christian wasn't sorry he had to part with an old possession. A surgeon removed a bullet that had been in his foot for 49 years.
'Diz' No Longer Pitches, But He Hasn't Quit Talking
By MILTON RICHMAN
By MILTON RICHMAN
United Press Sports Writer
- United Press Spot New York, April — (U.P.)—Dizzy Dunn, a little more a heavier, and a lot more talkative, "snuck" quietly into town today and immediately proclaimed young Mickey McDermott as the fastest pitcher in baseball and "Good Ol' Diz" as the slickest slugger on the links.
"This McDermott of the Red Sox is the fastest around," allowed the great Dean. "Course, he ain't faster than I was but he's the fastest there is now."
Dean, here to sign a television commentator's contract with the Yankees, wanted to talk golf as much as baseball.
"Ya know," he declared. "I've been shooting a lot of 70's and I even had a 69. Now don't go printin' that because the guys I play with will want me to spot 'em more strokes.
"I won $11,000 in a golf match not so long ago. That was more than the Cardinals paid me in three seasons."
"I won $1,500 in a gunman's so long ago. That was more than the Cardinals paid me in three seasons." Dizzy, who handles the king's English like a semi-pro, she has made no elaborate preparation for his new commentating job with the Yankees.
"Ain't looked at a grammar book in years," he said, shrugging his shoulders. "You know how my education was. I went to the second grade and never finished the first too good.
"Those Brooklyn fans don't worry me none. If they don't understand me too good we're even-stephen because I never understood them too good."
Champs Galore At KU Relays
Sixteen newly- crowned individual and relay champions from one of the top Texas Relays fields in history are expected here April 22 for the Silver Anniversary running of the Kansas Relays.
Two co-champions, Virgil Sevens, Kansas State high jumper, and Oklahoma pole-vaulter Bill Carroll, will complete this roster, thus leaving only two co-winners and one victorious baton team, Loyola of Chicago, which bagged the college class sprint medley, scheduled to be missing from top-flight competitors who went to the post at Austin.
Furthermore, no less than 35 second and third place winners in both the university and college classes at Austin are slated to move up to Lawrence en masse. Here they will run into some of the Big Ten's best, such as Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota, plus a full complement of Big Seven teams.
Add to this that only one individual winner—Jack Todd of Colorado who won the javelin—from last year's carnival will be missing, and it points toward the best balanced field in the post-war running of the Mt. Oread Olympics.
Off the basis of their performances
With All-American Pat Bowers blazing 4:16 on the No. 3 leg, Kansas produced a sterling 17:20.9 in the four-mile relay, bettering the old Texas figure by almost 20 seconds and running almost 17 under the present Kansas record of 17:37.8 which Illinois notched here 19 years ago.
in the 85-degree Texas weather, at least four relay quartets and one individual performer, Severns, will seriously imperil Kansas records.
The Jayhawkers' performance in this race was only 4.8 seconds off the American intercollegiate record of 17:16.1 set by Indiana's great
team of 1937 which included Tommy Deckard, present Drake track coach, and Don Lash.
The Kansas Stater shared the Texas crown at 6 feet 8¼ inches with Jack Razzetto of San Diego State, a shade above the Kansas Relays standard of 6 feet 8 3-16 inches which Texas' Bobby Walters established here last year. Walters, Vern McGrew of Rice, and Jack Heintzman of Bradley, all expected to enter at Kansas, cleared 6 feet 6 inches behind Severns. With Missouri's Bob Gordon, Big Seven Indoor co-champion with Severns, joining the field, the Mt. Oread high jumps will assume an all-time sheen.
With stiff competition assured from Texas A. and M, and possibly Wisconsin, who could present N.C. A.A. champion Don Gehrmann in the anchor mile if it elected to run that race, Kansas or its conqueror, probably will come even closer to the American mark here.
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"Anything can happen out there," he said indifferently. "Besides, a lotta those guys look like bloomer girls anyway."
Dean, who said he was 39 years old—"They had a war and they checked on me"-insisted he likes his baseball straight, free of short pants, hulking elephants, and gift refrigerators.
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